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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by diognesofsinope on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:16AM (#28060083)
>I will quibble with your first point a bit. Law is a profession that attracts large numbers of people who default into it because they can’t think of what to do with their liberal arts undergraduate degree. It’s a demanding, detail oriented, analytical job, and many of those people become quite disillusioned with it.

Underrated comment -- literally half of all lawyers I've worked with (financial regulation) admit they chose law because they didn't like math.

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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by skt5 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:07AM (#28060570)
Doesn’t the LSAT have a significant logic portion which IIRC was fairly challenging? I guess you could figure out a way to do well on the LSAT with a distaste for math.
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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by ghaff on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:57AM (#28061745)
Never taken the LSAT, but have taken GMAT and (semi-obviously) SAT. Yes, there's a certain subset of "math" on these tests. But there are a lot of people who grind test prep and do well enough to get by. (And logic is something a bit different--which lawyers absolutely do need to some degree.)

I have no personal familiarity with law school but I know in (a good) business school, I had plenty of classmates who struggled with anything beyond very basic math--and sometimes even that. Read any of the "my first year in business school" literature and an essentially universal theme is that the math part was really hard.

Which it's not. And I say this as someone who even back then didn't consider themselves especially strong with mathematics in spite of having an engineering degree.

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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by didntknowya on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:35PM (#28068278)
yes and most "failed" lawyers i know didn't even finish law school or just did a year of it.

it evidently wasn't for them and they usually had or were inclined to do an arts degree anyway.

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